2025-12-14 19:29:49
That’s some free speech right there. #uspol
Stephen Miller is feeling powerful. He's out here claiming "might makes right" and saying the US can do anything.
Miller forgets that he's not the one with the power. The powerful guy repeats himself constantly, wanders off to look at his ballroom construction mid-speech, has fluid-filled ankles, and over-thinned blood. Miller forgets that the "powerful" never remain so for long and that "with great power, there must also be great responsibility."…
That’s some free speech right there. #uspol
#OTD in 2022 right before the poorly grounded buzzing audio signal completely went out in the middle of his pedantic #Presidential voting rights speech in #Atlanta , after he'd rambled on for awhile about how great it was to work …
Re “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!
If you’re fed up with Meta right now,
you’re not alone.
Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week
after Meta announced its latest policy changes.
These changes, seemingly designed to appease the incoming Trump administration,
included loosening Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for the targeting of LGBTQ people and immigrants.
If these changes
—or Meta’s long history of anti-competitive, censorial, and invasive practice…
"As explained in chapter 11 of Meyer’s book, assertions are meant to check the correctness of a piece of software; that is, its ability to perform the tasks defined in their specification.
Because, you do have a specification, right? Right?"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/asser…
View from the right:
For JD Vance, free speech only means his friends can’t be criticized
https://archive.ph/ygD07
Suit Argues for Free Speech in Privately Owned Public Spaces | THE CITY — NYC News https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/19/privately-owned-public-spaces-skadden-brookfield-lawsuit/